Plant cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase

US6552249B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Rebecca E. Cahoon · Webster Groves, US
• Gary M. Fader · Landenberg, US
• J. Antoni Rafalski · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2003
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N9/0006
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a lignin biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the lignin biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the lignin biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.